[gaspar]

I can see the potential of self-driving cars for long distance trips (e.g. SF-LA) or for big trucks, but I can't see it for everyday use especially if someone has kids. How many times an average person in US uses her car? 2-3 without kids and maybe more than 4-5 with kids(I think my numbers are probably too low)? For this to be viable economically, the pricing has to be very low and in order to be very low all of the people has to use this "self-driving service". This creates another problem though, you will have to plan your "short ride" ahead of time, e.g. what happens if you want to leave at the last moment and no car is available around you? And then there is another problem, if the self-driving service is cheap the ownership of the car is going to be even cheaper. A lot of variables and difficult to answer questions. I don't know if we ever going to be a society without car ownership and to be honest as long as there is no traffic I like driving, and it makes me relax. I see it more as a fancy option for cars, like what Tesla does, but to completely remove the car ownership is going to take many decades. Before cars there were horses and stuff so the transition was easier. This is going to be very tough.